Koga Tatsushirō

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Koga Tatsushirō ( Japanese 古 賀 辰 四郎 ; * February 23, 1856 Chikugo Province (today: Yame , Fukuoka Prefecture ); † August 15, 1918 ) was a Japanese entrepreneur .

Life

At the end of the 1890s Tatsushirō Koga bought the islands of Uotsuri-shima, Kuba-shima, Kita- and Minami-Kojima, which belong to the Senkaku Islands , and set up factories there for processing bonitos and albatross feathers. This company went bankrupt in 1940 and the islands have remained uninhabited since then.

Tatsushiro stands for the stress by the Japanese government of these islands to the principle of discovery-occupation (Discovery instrumentation)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Masami Itō: Owner OK with metro bid to buy disputed Senkaku Islands. In: The Japan Times Online. May 18, 2012, accessed February 7, 2013 .
  2. ↑ http://www.economic-undertow.com/2012/09/
  3. ↑ Linus Hagström: Japan's China Policy: A Relational Power Analysis , Volume 7 of the European Institute of Japanese Studies East Asian Economics and Business Series, Verlag Routledge, 2005, ISBN 020302379X, page 116
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Koga is the family name, Tatsushirō the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Koga, Tatsushirō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 古 賀 辰 四郎 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1856
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1918